From Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach (emphasis mine):

"Well, Richard, we're magnets, aren't we? Not magnets. We're iron, wrapped in copper wire, and whenever we want to magnetize ourselves we can. Pour our inner voltage through the wire, we can attract whatever we want to attract. A magnet is not anxious about how it works. It is itself, and by its nature it draws some things and leaves others untouched."

I ate a potato chip and frowned at him. "You left out one thing. How do I do it?"

"You don't do anything. Cosmic law, remember? Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well."

The people and other resources that you attract, by virtue of you raising your vibration and being clear about what you want, will help you get whatever you want, in the most rapid fashion possible.

The law of attraction works the same way every time for every thing that we want to achieve. The way the law works is that we must maintain the thought of what we want to have and through this we are able to attract what is desired. All the methods that are recommended are only intended to get us to the point of maintaining the thought.

The "short cut" is to express it in the simplest way that your subconscious understands. . . . . . .

why do look for short cuts